On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 01:48 +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> git push is opposite (almost) to git fetch, not to git pull.
This asymmetry is also part of what makes Git hard to learn at first.
There is a lot of new terminology to learn:
refs
remotes
fast-forwarding
rebasing
origin
master
HEAD (which is not quite the same as good old CVS's HEAD)
etc.
The solution is not, "have a good glossary" (which is needed, anyway),
but to make the documentation introduce those concepts at the right
time, instead of being chock-full of them from the beginning :)
Carl Worth's git-ification of the Mercurial book chapter is very nice in
this regard; it doesn't dump all the terminology on you, but rather
takes its time to introduce each concept when you are ready to know
about it [1].
It's kind of sad that the first thing "man git-push" tells you is this:
git-push - Update remote refs along with associated objects
So you go, "refs? associated objects? whaaaaaat?" :)
Imagine someone learning the GIMP a few versions ago. "I want to make
this photo sharper". You go to the Filters/Enhance menu and you see
Laplace
Sobel
Sharpen
Unsharp mask
All of those sharpen the image. Which one do you pick?
[1] http://cworth.org/hgbook-git/
Federico
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