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From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git wiki
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On Wed, 3 May 2006, Theodore Tso wrote:

> Mercurial also has an easier learning curve; and while the "Everyday
> Git with 20 commands or so" is a very good document, and I've found it
> invaluable for getting started, if you compare it to the "Quick Start
> for the Impatient" page on the front page of the Mercurial Wiki, for
> many people Mercurial will *appear* to be an order of magitude simpler
> and is yet powerful enough for their project.

Actually, we could almost steal their QuickStart, replace "hg" with "git", 
and have it actually be correct.

Setting up public access follows a slightly different pattern, but 
otherwise, all of the operations on that page are identical or simpler in 
git than as given in that document, AFAICT.

	-Daniel
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