On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 12:55:49AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Remember, those who read "git for CVS users" are _unwilling_ to spend the > time reading git documentation (at least for the most part). If they > encounter something which is not useful to them, they will not just ignore > it, they will stop reading. That might overstate the case a little, but I definitely agree that we should get people to the information they need as quickly as possible, and that adding more beginning-unix-administration will interfere with that goal for the intended audience. And it's not just here--there's probably lots of basic unix-commandline stuff that we could include with the user-manual (how find/xargs pipes work, etc...), and that would similarly help one possible audience at the expense of bogging it down for another audience. I think the way to help people without those prerequisites is by clearer statements of prerequisites, and references to documentation elsewhere where appropriate. --b. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
