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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: Making git disappear when talking about my code
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:22:59 -0400 (EDT)
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I would agree with you that if you are talking to total git
> newbie, you cannot get away with message like [3] in your
> original and you would need some instructions you added in your
> example [2].  But I suspect that is true for any new system.  If
> somebody has never seen cvs and your project is hosted at cvs,
> and if you want to be really helpful, I think you have to tell
> "cvs -d :pserver:... co cworth-project" somewhere in your
> message.

You forget about "cvs -d :pserver:... login" that needs to be performed 
as well.


Nicolas