Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git

Robert P. J. Day
2007-12-23T12:21:09Z

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 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?
>
> hmmm. There's the tutorial linked at the bottom of the page, which
> in turn links to
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/everyday.html
>
> git is a developer's tool, so I sorta targetted that audience. I
> definitely agree that is not only git audience...

just to be clear, i'm not complaining about the quality of the
document above, but when i got started with git, what i really wanted
was a list of what i (as a simple, non-developer user) could do once i
cloned a repository.

to that end, i put together my own little reference list of git
commands. for example, i collected ways to examine my repository --
git commands like branch, tag, log/shortlog, what-changed, show, grep,
blame, that sort of thing. exactly the kind of stuff a new user might
want to know about, even without the ability to change anything.

just my $0.02.

rday
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