From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tilman Schmidt Subject: Re: The 8th airing of the msysGit herald Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:12:26 +0100 Organization: me - organized?? Message-ID: <47CF28DA.9030209@imap.cc> References: <200803030210.02223.jnareb@gmail.com> <47CBE85B.6060702@imap.cc> <47CC419E.7030704@imap.cc> <47CC47EE.9060004@nrlssc.navy.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigD4D0C0343A7397AF098528EF" Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: Brandon Casey X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 06 00:13:27 2008 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 1JX2nd-0005cb-UF for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:13:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933355AbYCEXMp (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:12:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763397AbYCEXMn (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:12:43 -0500 Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:51588 "EHLO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933345AbYCEXMj (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:12:39 -0500 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC7FAFDEB; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:12:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:12:38 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: rbXJDiQ88X9lGjJ0cu1ANwAxDES7QBftU8jlLakVfCm2 1204758757 Received: from [192.168.59.127] (pD9E849B3.dip.t-dialin.net [217.232.73.179]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E7E9427B79; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:12:36 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 SeaMonkey/1.1.8 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <47CC47EE.9060004@nrlssc.navy.mil> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigD4D0C0343A7397AF098528EF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 03.03.2008 19:48 schrieb Brandon Casey: > I think the assumption made was that you were already getting some work= > done with the version of git that you had. True. > If you do not yet have a comfortable grasp of git usage True, too. > I would suggest the following steps: >=20 > 1) Grab "a" version of git (preferably latest stable version) > -If you need to compile it, read the "INSTALL" file. > 2) Read intro/tutorials > -tutorial.txt > -everyday.txt > -user-manual.txt (more in-depth) > These three are mentioned in the git man page. > 3) Start using it > -refer to man pages to answer questions as you > encounter issues > -ask the mailing list when man pages or other docs > are unable to answer your questions Got as far as that. In fact, I'm talking about one specific aspect of that last substep. (let's call it 3.2) > 4) End of story I can't see that yet. > Upgrading, reading RelNotes, using new features, and reading the high-v= olume > mailing list are not required, so it is wrong to suggest that they are = barriers > to entry for using git. I never meant to suggest that. They only are barriers for proceeding to step 3.2 and onwards to step 4. Hope that clears it up a bit. --=20 Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Unge=F6ffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe R=FCckseite) --------------enigD4D0C0343A7397AF098528EF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3rc1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHzyjjMdB4Whm86/kRAo8gAJ96UaXe9Ee/6dP8SEBq8uxDB7TkawCffJY5 xqbvNKRI9iMZ+n/gij18lJs= =g0jZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigD4D0C0343A7397AF098528EF--