From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Robert P. J. Day" Subject: Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:08:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <200612241807.kBOI746w008739@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <476E42BF.1010300@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List To: Jeff Garzik X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Dec 23 13:09:06 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 1J6Pdh-0003LY-5H for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:09:05 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751887AbXLWMIl (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:08:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751475AbXLWMIl (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:08:41 -0500 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]:59318 "EHLO astoria.ccjclearline.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751116AbXLWMIk (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:08:40 -0500 Received: from [99.236.111.198] (helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1J6PdH-00026o-5m; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:08:39 -0500 X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <476E42BF.1010300@garzik.org> X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================