From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Guilhem Bonnefille" Subject: Re: Difficulties in advertising a new branch to git newbies Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:13:42 +0100 Message-ID: <8b65902a0701310513s1f8bfa04o7e1c7e43b7453ac8@mail.gmail.com> References: <87odognuhl.wl%cworth@cworth.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Carl Worth" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 31 14:13:56 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 1HCFHe-0003W4-Pv for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:13:55 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933242AbXAaNNt (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:13:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933246AbXAaNNt (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:13:49 -0500 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.237]:14441 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933242AbXAaNNs (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:13:48 -0500 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h31so200194wxd for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:13:48 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=F5XhnAwl3hZ/3Vw7aZJ6mn1U0U4k97S7CDIDOEJT2lqNssaZ6qUW9m7vWssyJHvFKTS2REGLt65B913PSrHEwVsDpUC00+NtE+wYZQCdTHFJtvNlKRNwYnOXrBfgbKLkDGUwXMQRBTg0kkzVL6YVc1T6w0V2+Mr9aNeSFDnDZbw= Received: by 10.90.84.17 with SMTP id h17mr1100767agb.1170249227996; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:13:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.51.4 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:13:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87odognuhl.wl%cworth@cworth.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 1/30/07, Carl Worth wrote: > Also, these users are glad to follow instructions, but they're really > interested in just testing the fix I'm offering, and not interested in > getting involved in a git tutorial just yet. (Though, I'd be quite > happy if they found this a gentle and enjoyable introduction to git). If the user is not a developer and only interested in testing, what about a simple snapshot tarball? So, you prepare the fix and then you pack everything in a myapp-timestamp.tar.gz and send this tarball to the user. -- Guilhem BONNEFILLE -=- #UIN: 15146515 JID: guyou@im.apinc.org MSN: guilhem_bonnefille@hotmail.com -=- mailto:guilhem.bonnefille@gmail.com -=- http://nathguil.free.fr/